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    The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales...
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  • The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales...
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  • building Defensive wall, a fortified wall Blanket fort or pillow fort, built by children Device Forts, in England and Wales from 1539 Hillfort, earthworks...
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    Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche Gorge Gunpowder magazine Hornwork Kotta mara Lunette Magazine Orillon Ostrog Palanka Place-of-arms Polygonal fort Presidio...
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  • a list of most of the fortifications on the island. The Palmerston Forts are forts built during the Victorian era. The name comes from their association...
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    defence forts were built to protect coastal forts. Through the middle 19th century, coastal forts could be bastion forts, star forts, polygonal forts, or...
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    Portland Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    too close to Hull, so was disarmed when new forts were built at Sunk Island and Stallingborough. The fort was used as a training base between the wars...
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  • Reformation (begun 1532) under Henry VIII Henrician castles, also called the Device Forts (1539–47), built by Henry VIII Henrician Articles (1573), electoral capitulation...
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    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    Beacon Hill Battery (category Device Forts)
    reign of Henry VIII, following his visit to the town in 1543. These were Device Forts, built at Tower House, Middle House and the House-upon-the-Hill. They...
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    Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche Gorge Gunpowder magazine Hornwork Kotta mara Lunette Magazine Orillon Ostrog Palanka Place-of-arms Polygonal fort Presidio...
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    Hurst Castle (category Device Forts)
    artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal...
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    Camber Castle (category Device Forts)
    Castle, also known formerly as Winchelsea Castle, is a 16th-century Device Fort, built near Rye by King Henry VIII to protect the Sussex coast of England...
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    Pendennis Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    Castle, also known historically as Branksea Castle, was originally a Device Fort constructed by Henry VIII between 1545 and 1547 to protect Poole Harbour...
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    England's coast known as the Device Forts or as Henrician Castles. Western Heights, Dover Ramparts 1779 Mostly complete A series of forts, strong points and ditches...
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    Southsea Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    term designates the internal part of this space, relative to the closing device, door or window. In fortification this refers to the outward splay of a...
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    Calshot Castle (category Device Forts)
    England considers Calshot a "well-preserved example" of King Henry's Device Forts. Calshot Castle was built as a consequence of international tensions...
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    VIII's Device Forts. He also strengthened existing coastal defence fortresses such as Dover Castle and, at Dover, Moat Bulwark and Archcliffe Fort, which...
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    Deal Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    ideas were further developed and incorporated into the trace italienne forts by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, that remained in use during the Napoleonic...
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    Germany by means of free-flying hydrogen balloons that carried incendiary devices or trailing steel wires (intended to damage power lines.) Between 1942...
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    Martello tower (redirect from Martello Fort)
    Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from...
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  • others, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Device Forts, the foundation of the Royal Navy, the English Reformation, the Great...
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    3°46′35″W / 50.2289°N 3.7765°W / 50.2289; -3.7765 Salcombe Castle or Fort Charles is a ruined fortification just off the beach of North Sands in Salcombe...
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    Sandgate Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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    St Mawes Castle (category Device Forts)
    order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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  • Baradari in Lahore completed Approximate date of completion of some of the Device Forts on the coast of England: Calshot, Deal, Sandgate, Sandown and Walmer...
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